Audiobooks narrated by Bill Nighy

That dry, slightly bemused delivery turns out to suit Pratchett extremely well — he is one of the voices on the current Discworld re-recordings, and he reads the footnotes as though he is faintly embarrassed to be doing it, which is exactly right. He also appears in the full-cast Harry Potter editions.

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Series Bill Nighy appears in

We do not list individual books for these: each is either shared between narrators or includes titles that are not in Bill Nighy’s recordings, and we hold one narrator credit per series rather than per volume. We would rather say so than guess which titles are which.

Discworld in orderTerry Pratchett · 42 books · One lead actor per sub-series in the current recordings — Jon Culshaw for the City Watch, Indira Varma for the Witches and the Tiffany Aching books, Colin Morgan for Rincewind and the wizards, Sian Clifford for Death, Richard Coyle for Moist von Lipwig — and a different lead on each standalone, with Bill Nighy on the footnotes and, on most of the books, Peter Serafinowicz as Death; A Blink of the Screen is read by Michael Fenton Stevens and Stephen Briggs

Where Bill Nighy is one of the choices

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Authors Bill Nighy reads

Terry Pratchett1 series on this site

Portraits — Terry Pratchett: Photo: Luigi Novi · CC BY 3.0 · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons.

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